Name Suzanne Lebsock | Role Author | |
Books A Murder in Virginia, The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860 Awards Bancroft Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Suzanne Lebsock (born Dec. 1,1949 at Williston, ND ) is an award-winning author and historian. Her works include her first book The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 which was published in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize, and A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. She has won the Francis Parkman Prize for her writing, and is currently a Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She specializes in women's history.
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Lebsock has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and MacArthur foundations.
Personal life
Lebsock was formerly married to Richard Levis McCormick, a former president of Rutgers University. They have two children, Betsy and Michael.